Category: Channel9 Posts

Dave Fellows joins Donovan Brown to chat about a new service called Azure Batch Rendering, which is built on the Azure Batch service to provide capabilities for rendering 3D graphics for film and other visual media projects. The service provides pay-per-use licensing of the commercial applications commonly used in this field. For more information, see: Azure

Emily Lawton joins Scott Hanselman to discuss what’s new in Azure Cosmos DB’s API for Mongo DB, including new preview features such as support for the aggregation pipeline and unique indexes. They discuss tips and tricks for importing large backups using MongoDB Tools. For more information, see: Azure Cosmos DB: API for MongoDB Azure Cosmos

Veljko Vasic shows Seth Juarez how Azure SQL Database uses built-in intelligence to continuously monitors database usage so that it can detect disruptive events that cause poor performance. Once detected, a detailed analysis is performed generating a diagnostic log with an intelligent assessment of the issue, which consists of a root cause analysis of the database performance

Veljko Vasic demos the built-in automatic tuning intelligence mechanism in Azure SQL Database to show Seth Juarez how it can automatically tune and improve query performance by dynamically adapting the database to your workload. Automatic tuning in Azure SQL Database might be one of the most important features that you can enable on Azure SQL

Azure IoT seems to be this month’s theme, doesn’t it? Well then we might as well close out the month with highlighting a post from Chris Pietschmann… Order Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) on Amazon with FREE Shipping The Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) is a really amazing little IoT (Internet of Things) prototyping board

Telmo Sampaio joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Building Blocks 2.0 (azbb), which is an open-source command line tool and set of Azure Resource Manager templates designed to simplify deployment of Azure resources. It enables you to use infrastructure as code in Azure without worrying about the complexity of ARM resources. For more information, see: Building

Gabe Monroy joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Container Service (AKS), Microsoft’s new managed Kubernetes service. Now you can easily manage your Kubernetes environment by simplifying the deployment, management, and operations activities without sacrificing portability. You gain all the benefits of Kubernetes without the complexity and operational overhead. For more information, see: Azure Container Service